| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
New Mobilities in Asia ; 8
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New mobilities in Asia ; 8.
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| Contents |
1. Why highways remake hierarchies / Luke Heslop and Galen Murton -- 2. Stuck on the side of the road: mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal / Galen Murton and Tulasi Sharan Sigdel -- 3. A road to the 'hidden place': road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet / Yi Huang -- 4. Dhabas, highways, and exclusion / Swargajyoti Gohain -- 5. The edge of Kaladan: a 'spectacular' road through 'nowhere' on the India-Myanmar borderlands / Jasnea Sarma -- 6. The making of a 'new Dubai': infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan / Mustafa A. Khan -- 7. Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives: gifts, hospitality, and rumours / Luke Heslop and Laura Jeffery -- 8. Roads and the politics of thought: climate in India, democracy in Nepal / Katharine Rankin and Edward Simpson. |
| Summary |
This edited collection explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in 21st-century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Roads -- South Asia.
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Roads -- Himalaya Mountains.
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Roads -- Social aspects.
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Development studies. |
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Human geography. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure. |
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Roads |
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Roads -- Social aspects |
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Himalaya Mountains |
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South Asia |
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Development studies. |
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Sociology and anthropology. |
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Transport technology and trades. |
| Added Author |
Heslop, Luke, editor.
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Murton, Galen, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heslop, Luke Highways and Hierarchies Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,c2021 |
| ISBN |
9789048552511 (electronic book) |
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9048552516 (electronic book) |
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9789463723046 (hardcover) |
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9463723048 (hardcover) |
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